The Research Group on Qualitative and Multi-Method Analysis

June 23-24, 2012, Maxwell School of Syracuse University

The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) is held at the same time as a Research Group. While the Institute focuses on teaching research skills, the Research Group is a workshop for authors who are developing qualitative and multi-method research techniques, or applying such methods in innovative ways.

The 2012 Research Group took place during the mid-Institute break on Saturday June 18 and Sunday June 19. As noted below, the authors' workshop discussed both article and book projects.

The article projects discussed at the 2012 Research Groups included: 

Alberto Abadie (Harvard University): “Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method” joint with Alexis Diamond (IFC) and Jens Hainmueller (MIT).

Adam Glynn and Nahomi Ichino (Harvard University): “Using Case Studies to Adjust Estimates of Causal Effects.”

Ted Hopf and Bentley Allan (Ohio State University): “National Identity: An Intersubjective Database.”

Anne Meng (University of California, Berkeley): “Using In-Depth Case Studies to Evaluate the Plausibility of Ecological Inference in Large-N Research” joint with Brian Palmer-Rubin (University of California, Berkeley).

Carsten Schneider (Central European University): “Set-Theoretic Case Selection Principles: A Template for Bringing Established Small-N Research Principles Back Into Regression-Based Case Selection Practices” with Ingo Rohlfing (Cologne Graduate School)

Sherry Zaks (University of California, Davis): “Relationships Among Rivals: Contending Hypotheses and the Logic of Process Tracing.” 
  

The book project focus of the Research Group partly arises from the development of a new book series at Cambridge University Press on Strategies of Social Inquiry. The Research Group has been extended to include discussion of book manuscripts or proposals that are actively under consideration for the Cambridge series, as well as other manuscripts. The projects discussed at the 2012 Research Group included: 

Jeb Barnes and Nick Weller (University of Southern California): “Finding Pathways: Case Selection for Studying Causal Mechanisms in Mixed-Methods Research.”

Jason Seawright (Northwestern University): “How Case Studies Contribute to Multi-Method Research.”

If you have any questions about the 2013 Research Group, please contact the group coordinators, John Gerring of Boston University (jgerring@bu.edu) and James Mahoney of Northwestern University (james-mahoney@northwestern.edu).